Question

Discuss the demographics of the area in which you live. Have students develop a list of appropriate cross-cultural considerations for the ethnic groups in the area.

Answer 1

Answer :

Demographics of hispanic / latinos :

• Largest minority group
• Hispanics are a young ,fast growing population
• Larger families.
• Lower high school graduation rates
• Self identity differs.

Demographic : hispanic : 37,872,476

AGE :

One third of hispanics are under age 18.

Among hispanics ,mexicans have largest proportion under age 18.

The hispanic population is younger than the non hispanic white population.

FAMILY AND HOUSE HOLDS AND MARITAL STATUS :

hispanic family households are more likely than non hispanic white family households to be maintained by a female with no spouse present.

Among hispanic family , puero ricans have largest proportion of house holds maintained by female with no spouce present .

About half of hispanic aged 15years and older are married.

ACCULTURATION :

DIVERSITY : among native born latinos and those who are fully fluent in english ,views on a range of issues are often closur to those of non hispanics than those who are foreign born or spanish Speakers.

LANGUAGE : english .

Music : folk and popular dance and music also varies greatly among hispanics .

Sports : foot ball is most popular sports of hispanics

Religion : christianity _specifically roman catholism.

Race and ethnicitethnicity: a hispanic person could be white ,black /african ,anerican ,asian ,pacific islander or native american.